School Textbooks with Updated Content in Kazakhstan in the Aspect of Education Reform

Abstract

Implementation of the reform in the system of school education in the Republic of Kazakhstan, which was caused by the need to create competitive education against the background of increased educational migration (the outflow of school leavers) and the importance of developing a policy of “reverse” migration, led to the development of new standards, program models and textbooks with updated content. The transition to trilingualism, particularly, the teaching of biology, chemistry and informatics in the 10th–11th grades in English from 2019, is a part of the introduction of the model tested in Nazarbaev Intellectual Schools that demonstrated high results in PISA in the general education school. The article describes the factors of the reform in education and the experience of developing an educational and methodological complex on the subject “Russian Language and Literature” for the 6th grade of non-Russian language general education school. Modern understanding of teaching effectiveness and advantages of a communicative-activity approach is illustrated by examples of a new goal-setting, differentiation and progression, organization and combination of types of learning activity, a new approach to evaluation as an element of teaching, and the application of an intersubject approach. The methodological basis of the article is characterized by the application of modern concepts relating to advances in didactics, rhetoric and linguoculturology. The results obtained by the authors can be used in the field of didactics of the secondary and higher schools in terms of active teaching methods, comprehensive training of speech activity and methods of teaching the speech disciplines to the national audience. The authors describe the experience in developing the skills of free speaking, argumentative writing, interpretation of a “ foreign” text, and also substantiate the practical significance of the above mentioned skills for the successful social integration of students.